Tax column off base
There is certainly no empirical evidence to suggest that our current marginal tax rate is too high for the purposes of generating revenue.
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NALLI: Boosting Hoosiers’ health takes team effort
Coverage alone is no guarantee for a healthier Indiana, and our current methods of delivering health care aren’t meeting the needs of those who need it most.
Why suspicion runs rampant
When citizens do not believe they can trust their government and other social institutions, they become suspicious of one another.
MORRIS: You can have a voice in local government
The case of a Goodwill store and Westfield’s Bridgewater development grabs attention.
Tough decisions pay off for ISO
On Dec. 7, the ISO reported its third straight budget surplus, thanks to a rise in ticket sales and steady fundraising. All parties involved—from the ISO’s new management team to the musicians, who took steep pay cuts in the interest of securing the organization’s long-term future—deserve kudos for how far they’ve come.
LOU’S VIEWS: Beyond just ‘Jingle Bells’
Christmas music maven Bryan Fonseca of the Phoenix Theatre helps spruce up your collection of holiday music
DINING: A new dining oasis opens in Broad Ripple
After my first lunch at Sahara, I wanted to go back for dinner. And maybe for lunch the next day.
LOPRESTI: Marian football: from pipe dream to powerhouse in eight years
What some thought was a quixotic quest looks in hindsight like pure genius.
SKARBECK: Increasing number of cars complicates climate talks
The challenge for investors becomes how to analyze the future of industries that produce and rely on fossil fuels, along with assessing the viability of renewable energy sources.
BOHANON & STYRING: Federal tax system earns F on every front
If we’re going to tax income, is there a better alternative? Indiana’s adjusted gross income tax wouldn’t be a bad choice.
DANIELS:Pass a pay increase but put off the implementation
It’s really not surprising that the City-County Council, in an 11th-hour, post-election/pre-inauguration move, is seeking to increase the salary of council members. An accompanying proposal to raise the mayor’s pay unfortunately has been withdrawn.
BOEHM: Pay increase for Marion County pols is long overdue
The bipartisan proposal to raise the salaries of city-county councilors and the mayor was certainly reasonable. (The mayoral raise has since been withdrawn.)
DIETER: Reaping the results of what we do and fail to do
Two recent news stories would seem to have nothing to do with each other. But they represent cause and effect. Reaping what we sow.
MEREDITH: Renewed respect for teachers tops this wish list
Dear Santa, all I want for Christmas is respect for all those who serve in Indiana’s public schools.
MASSON: Too much fear, politics inform governor’s refugee policy
The world is getting more tightly intertwined all the time. We are now immediately immersed in events that take place thousands of miles away. Far-off atrocities are now the subject of swift political decisions and corresponding lawsuits.
SIDDIQUI: Honestly, we don’t have answers for extremism
America is weaker because our leaders are busier fighting elections than keeping us safe. The biggest example of this failure is failing to have an honest conversation about our Middle East policy.
DOUTHAT: Contrasting the conflicts in Syria and pre-WWII Spain
Between 1936 and 1939, the Spanish Civil War condensed the awful drama of the 1930s into one conflict.
SOWELL: Battling back against surging campus intolerance
Storm-trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate pre-emptive surrender by college administrators—such as at the University of Missouri recently—bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember what it was like being there, and seeing firsthand how painful events unfolded. At Harvard, […]
BARLOW: The real motive of the gun-control intelligentsia
Agendas are a tricky thing. On the one hand, it’s easy to assume that someone’s agenda motivates his or her actions and that this is inherently sinister. But even after spending over a decade in politics, I still think most people are good and want the best for their neighbor, their community, and themselves.
DOWD: A liberal’s GOP brother rates the 2016 candidates
With the intense interest in the thrill-a-minute, through-the-looking-glass 2016 race, fueled by anger at maladjusted Washington and anxiety after the Paris attacks, I decided to let my Republican brother offer his red-state soliloquy, hoping. He-e-e-ere’s Kevin: